By David Crystal

New from Cambridge University Press!

By Peter Mark Roget

This book "supplies a vocabulary of English words and idiomatic phrases 'arranged … according to the ideas which they express'. The thesaurus, continually expanded and updated, has always remained in print, but this reissued first edition shows the impressive breadth of Roget's own knowledge and interests."

How direct is the mapping between linguistic constructions and theirinterpretations? Much less direct than we commonly assume, according toDaniel Wedgwood. Extending current ideas from frameworks like RelevanceTheory and Dynamic Syntax, Wedgwood upholds a radical position onmodelling linguistic competence: the idea of interfacing static syntacticand semantic representations must be abandoned in favour of models of theincremental construction of meaning during parsing--which may involvesignificant pragmatic enrichment. In illustration, Wedgwood presents adetailed study of a key meeting point of grammar and pragmatics.